Lord Duckhunter

I've found someone who admits the BBC was biased towards the left, The Director General Mark Thompson http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23873043-bbc-chief-mark-thompson-admits-left-wing-bias.do For lefties to want me to pay a TV poll tax as some sort of balance against News International is bizzare. Perhaps we should have a national newspaper to counter The Sun and Times. Even if you dont read it, you can be sent to jail for not paying for the "The National Daily". I keep reading how wonderful the BBC is, what great value for money it is, and how people love it. Then pay for it via a subscripition. I can then make a decision as to whther I want to spend my money on it or not. At present the only choice I have is: pay it, dont watch any channels, or go to jail. I would have thought a tax that is not based on your ability to pay was against all the lefties principles.

I could refuse to buy any products from ITV's adverts, that's my choice. However, I wont be thrown in jail for doing so. Companies have a budget for adverts, whether they be on TV, in the press, Radio and bill boards. If people stopped watching commercial TV stations then advertisers would pull out and they'd go bang. If people stopped watching the BBC they will still have to pay or risk being thrown in jail. If the BBC is so wonderful, take away the threat of jail, make it a subscrption service and people will pay for it.

This is a massive game as far as I'm concerned. Win it and we're 3 behind Boscombe with 2 games in hand and a better goal difference, and above PBoro and Hudders and still a game in hand. If we win tomorrow a draw at Boscombe will be quite a good result, lose tomorrow and Boscombe starts looking "make or break".We also need to ramp up the pressure on Brighton, being caught up by one side is one thing, but the presure increases if it's the autos you could blow, rather than just the title.

Itv has some public service obligations, but for all intents and purposes is a commercial organisation. Certainly to compare it to the BBC is competely wide of the mark. The BBC pay people too much, sent too many people around the World to sporting events ect and spend too much money making programmes that commercial channels are making already. Too much money is wasted on their web site. I can honestly say that I would not miss a single programme if I could block it and not pay my licenec fee. You like it and want to watch it? Then you pay for it, I dont expect you to pay for my Sky subscription, why should I be sent to jail for not paying for something I have no interest in watching.

It was a game of 3 thirds really. The first 3rd of the game we were good and I thought "this will be easy". Second third we fell apart a bit and they not only scored but looked like they were going to go onto win. During this period Adkins was doing his nut on the line, shouting and trying to get the players playing again. He made a Sub, bringing on MS and one of the first things he did was swing a great ball out to AC, who was fouled and we scored from the resulting free kick.We never looked like losing from then on in.All that matters now is results, so 4-1 home to anyone is a good result, particulary when Hudders blew a 2 goal lead at home to 10 men.Although it seems some people are never satisifed, if we win it's despite of Adkins or because the other team was poor, and if we lose it's down to Adkins.

Chris Patten is a jumped up leftie himself, he's about as much of a Tory as New Labour. My opinion is that in 2011, we should not be paying a poll tax to fund a national TV station.If people want to watch the BBC they should subscribe to it, if like Dune they think it's full of Lefties , then dont. At the moment I can be thrown in jail even if I never watch a single minute of a single broadcast. The BBC run adverts for their programmes, chase viewing figures, mirror events that other broadcasters are covering, pay presenters massive salaries and generaly act like a commercial station, yet the man on the minimum wage pays the same for it as Wayne Rooney, whether he wants to watch it or not.

True, but the Tories don't bang on about an ethical foregin policy, claim the weapons sold under them are not used on the people and try and paint themselves whiter than white. Their approach has always been, "he maybe a mad despot, but he's our mad despot".It's stright and you know where you stand.Labour want it both ways.

Did anyone see that idiot Peter Hain on Question time? He was running down the Tories for having defence Companies accompany Cameron to the middle east. Dimble than quite correctly pointed out the millions and millions of pounds worth of weapons that were sold to Libya under his Govt. His reply was that there were rules in place that meant the arms sold under Labour were done on the basis that they're not to be used on their own people.He summed up the whole hypocrisy of the Labour Party over this.They go on about an ethical foregin policy, but cosy up to people like Gaddafi, sell arms to nutters and invade foregin countries on the basis of a made up report. Hain wanted to have his cake and eat it and if he really believes Gaddafi's henchmen decide which gun to use to shoot protesters based on a agreement with the Labour party, he's even more bonkers than I thought.I can see it now "go onto the streets and shoot the Infidel's, no you can't take that gun, use this one, that one is part of our agreement with those peaceful Labour people" .

I agree, we should have put that one to bed. Win that one and a draw at Hartlepool looks a better result. I've always taken the view the less "must win" games you play,the better. We're nowhere near the "must win" situation yet, because everyone bar Brighton keeps slipping up.

We were Newcastles for years, late comebacks and Matt Le Tiss specials meant they couldn't beat us for years.

It's not so much a physical thing more of a mental one. Players lose concentration when tired, and with experiance comes the know how to concentrate in every situation. Older players also keep the ball slightly bettter and dont tear around all over the place.Most Managers dip youngsters in and out of the team during their first couple of seasons.

Perhaps we should have just made you judge and jury. Believe it or not people were against this decision on the basis that they disagreed with it. They disagreed with the UK govt "doing all it could" to release this man.Why do lefties always think they have the moral high ground and that when people oppose them it's for the wrong reasons.

It's a political point when the Labour Govt "did all it could" to free a mass murderer who was convicted and serving time in a UK jail.

Is this the bloke? Wonder who Brown's advisors were at the time, wasn't it the two Eds? It's a bit rich claiming the Tories were as bad, Labour was in power, they should apoligise.

"Everyone?" You mean "everyone in the last Cabinet, including the 2 Ed's."

Perhaps Brown should now apoligise for him Blair and the previous Labour Govt doing "all it could to facilitate" the release of the Lockerbie murderer.

Steely Dan were/are fantastic, this is one of the greatest songs ever wrtten in my opinion. Donald Fagen's voice isn't the best by a long way, but unbelievable talent.Nothing better than a nice hot summer's day with Steel Dan blasting out. The only favourites of mine that Mrs Duck will listen to. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpgE8CpxZFI&feature=related

Did Adkins spend these millions? After 23 games, you can see how superior Poyet is already? Perhaps you should apply to Sky for Andy Grey's old job. I bet Fergie is glad the board at Old Trafford didn't make instant judgements after his first 23 games in charge.

Whatever the reasons, he was sacked and Adkins is our Manager. Surely he should be judged over a longer period than 23 games and after he's had a preseason in which to condition the players and make his own signings. had you judged Lawrie after 23 games, and compared him Ted, he'd have been out on his ear.

I'm not an "Adkinslovvie" just a guy who thinks that Managers should be judged over a longer period than 23 games and after (as Poyet has shown) a preseason. Having witnessed what Lawrie did after a very average start, find it unbelievable that people are making judgements over the guy already.

We were lower when Adkins took over then when Poyet took over Brighton. So who was the poor side? Why was Poyet starting from scratch and not Adkins?

Perhaps we should sack the Manager every time we fail to win, would that make people happy? Poyet seems to be attracting a lot of praise on here, so I thought I would look at his record and compare his first few months in charge with NA's. He joined Brighton when they were 20th and gained 45 points from 31 games. Nigel joined us in 22nd and has gained 42 points from 23 games. Also in there was a 2-0 loss at Hartlepool, but Gus somehow managed to cling on to his job despite that massive setback. My maths isn't great and maybe the BBC stats might have the odd error, but Nigel's record seems pretty good. Then again we are Southampton and we do not lose or draw matches in League 1. Lawrie took over from a legend and then promptly got us relegated. I'm just glad none of the moaners on here were in charge of the Club then, because we would have missed out on the greatest era in the clubs history. We've had 8 years of chopping and changing Managers, perhaps we should try something else.

My 11 year old thinks we should win every game in this league and is disappointed when we don't. As an adult I have to explain to him that football’s not like that, and that teams like Hartlepool will not lay down and die just because they’re playing a bigger club with a higher wage bill. Just as we turned over Manchester Utd occasionally, smaller clubs are going to produce against us, it’s why Leeds, Forest and others have struggled to get out of this league.I was happy with the status quo being maintained after Tuesdays games, especially with Swindon at home coming up. At the end of the day we should have hit the ground running this season and ran away with it like Leicester did, the fact we didn’t is not down to Adkins.

I cant see it with Oakley, never really rated him. Nowhere near good enough for England and people who say he was are just looking through their red and white glasses.Just a journeyman run of the mill Premiership player. Would not make the top 10 of midfielders we've had in the past 40 years. Looked like a little boy lost in the 4-1 at fratton.

We are not used to coalition politics in this Country, so many people will blame Clegg for propping up the Tories. There was always going to be a squeeze on them, because the rely on Labour votes in Tory areas and there's no point in that now. My mate is Labour through and through yet votes Lib/Dem in Poole as Labour will never win. He'll never vote for them again and they'll lose some support because of that. Clegg was in a bit of a corner because although closer to Labour, he always insisted that he would deal with the biggest party (vote wise), he also had to go into coalition because not to have done so, after advocating it for so long, would not have made sense. For me Clegg never thought he would have to go in with the Tories and always thought it would be an outright Tory win or a Lib/Lab pact. I think Cameron wanting a coalition throw him a bit, and he's never really recovered. I do honestly believe that unless we get some sort of PR, his party will take a generation to recover from this coalition and we'll be back to Tory or Labour.